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LONDON CABBIE JAILED FOR 11 YEARS FOR FERRYING COCAINE TO DEALERS ACROSS CAPITAL
A London taxi driver has been jailed for more than 11 years after ferrying kilo blocks of cocaine to dealers in his cab. According to Metro, Craig Rouse claimed he only started drug dealing because of the pandemic but within four days of the first lockdown last year he was found running a stock room with 4kg of cocaine in it. The 40-year-old and accomplices Robert Wiggins, 43, and Kevin Ryan, 45 were given lengthy prison sen- tences after their arrest in Operation Venetic, one of the UK’s largest crack- downs on organised crime. Hundreds of suspected crime bosses were arrested last summer when mili- tary-grade encrypted communication system EncroChat was hacked by
multiple police teams across the world. It revealed a criminal under- world used by hitmen, drug dealers and people traffick- ers across Europe. Rouse import-
ed pure cocaine from Colombia and paid Wiggins £500 to mix each block with Creatine or Benzocaine before pressing the cut cocaine into kilo- weight bricks. Rouse then delivered the pressed blocks – featuring a distinctive AK47 automatic rifle design – to dealers
around London from his black cab. Police seized £65,000 in cash, Louis Vuitton clothes, Rolex watches and a 1kg block of the cutting agent Creatine at Rouse’s Buckinghamshire home after his arrest. At Southwark Crown Court the gang admitted conspiring to supply class A drugs between March 23 and July 1 last year. Wiggins, a father-of-one who runs an auto firm in Notting Hill, also admitted illegally possessing a Heckler and Koch 9mm pistol along with around 30 rounds of ammunition, which he kept in a safe at work. Rouse was jailed for 11 years and three months while Wiggins was sentenced to nine years and four months. Ryan was locked up for seven years.
MORECAMBE CABBIE SAID HE WOULD LICK SPAGHETTI FROM AROUND SCHOOLGIRL’S MOUTH
A paedophile taxi driver from More- cambe told a young girl he wanted to lick spaghetti sauce from her mouth. LancsLive reports that Roy Hutson started talking to who he believed was a 13-year-old girl via Kick messenger in June 2019.
Hutson, who is a full-time carer for his wife of 42 years, was actually commu- nicating with an undercover police officer who works within the North West Organised Crime Unit. Preston Crown Court heard the 62- year-old asked ‘Lucy’ to send pictures of herself and said: “I promise you, anything in my private messages stays private, up to you hun if you trust me.”
Hutson then asked the girl if she want- ed him to be her boyfriend and sent her an emoji of a kissing face. Prosecutor Mark Kellet said: “On June 16 he said ‘where are my kisses’ and
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said he wanted to spank her. He was talking about sex and said ‘we all have to start somewhere’. “He said, when she was eating spaghet- ti and had it on her face, that he would like to lick it off." The court heard that the last time Hut- son messaged the girl was on July 23 in 2019. Police visited Hutson’s static car- avan in Morecambe a few days later on August 1 and arrested him. He later pleaded guilty to attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child, three counts of making indecent photographs of a child, distributing an indecent image of a child, possession of indecent pho- tographs and two counts of possession of extreme pornographic images. Hutson’s computer was forensically examined and was found to contain indecent and graphic images of chil- dren.
Defence barrister Janet Ironfield said Hutson had attempted to address his behaviour by making contact with the Stop It Now helpline which is aimed at individuals who have an interest in chil- dren.
A number of references were submit- ted on Hutson’s behalf including letters from his wife who has epilepsy and is currently undergoing cancer treatment. “If the defendant goes to prison it may be that his wife will have to leave their warden-controlled sheltered accom- modation and move into a care home,” Miss Ironfield added. The judge, Graham Knowles QC, said he wanted more information about how Hutson’s wife would be affected before he passed sentence. Hutson was granted bail and will return to Preston Crown Court on June 18 to be sen- tenced.
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